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BLEVATOR LOCK. No. 382,980. Patented May 15, 1888.

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UNITED STATES 'PATENT OEErcE.

EMILE J. HERMAN, OF S'I. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO THE SAFETY HATCH DOOR` COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

ELEVATOR-LOCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 382.980. dated May 15, 1888i Application tiled January 21, 1888. Serial No. 261,474. (No model.)

.To @ZZ whom, it may concern.'

Beit known that I, EMILE J. HERMAN, of the city ot St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Ima provenient in Elevator-Locks, of which the fol lowing is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, and in which- Figure I is a top view of my improved lock. Fig. II is an end View. Fig. III is asidcview. Fig. IV is a view of the bolt removed.

My invention relates to that class of elevator-locks in which a longitudinally-movable bolt is used in connection with a xed jaw for locking or holding the shippingrope of an elevator; and my invention consists in features of novelty hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents part ofthe cage of an elevator.

2 is the shipping-rope.

3 represents a box or housing secured to the cage near the shipping-rope, and it has a flXed jaw or projection, 4. It is made hollow to retime the lever is thrown forward.

My invention consists in making the movea ment of the bolt adjustable to suit shippingropes of different sizes, and I accomplish this, preferably, by means of two or more holes, l0, made in the bolt to receive the pin 9. By removing the pin from the hole in which it is shown and inserting it in one ofthe other holes it will be seen that the bolt will be: made to move nearer to or not so near the jaw each I am thus enabled to use the device on shippingropes of different sizes, it being understood that as the lever is thrown over, the pin, working in the inclined slot,will cause the longitudinal movement of the bolt, and by changing the pin this longitudinal movement may be varied.

I claim as my invention-- In an elevator-lock, the combination of the box or housing having a fixed jaw and an inclined slot, a bolt adapted to t in the box or housing and having two or more holes, an operatinglever on the bolt, and a pin adapted to lit in either of the holes and to work in the slot, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

EMILE J. HERMAN.

In presence of`- Jos. WAHLE, A. A. KNIGHT. 

